Thanks Ray.
Clarion isn't a bad language. And it's served me well for quite a few years.
It's easy to get started in, but powerful enough that you can do most of
what you want with it. I don't regret the 12+ years I've worked in it. And
it put lots of food on the table and a roof over my head. But within 2 days
of using VS C++ and the debugger, I found it painful to try and debug code
in Clarion. I'm kicking myself for not learning C years ago.
I can already tell that I'm going to have to invest in more bookshelves.
Marty
I have some great C++ books, but was
overwhelmed by the number of C# books. Separating the wheat from the chaff
has been difficult.
As you know, in CSci there's lots of chaff. I buy lots of CSci books
every year, read them once and toss them. The book by Jon Skeet who
posts here is one such book. He's a good author, and he is very
helpful in this group, but his book, while useful and worth the money,
is a "read once" book (except his Appendix A, which I ripped out and
saved). To his publisher's credit they also provide a PDF of the
entire book once you buy the paper copy and provide a password found
in the book, which you can store and keyword search. And lots of
books are even worse, much worse, than Skeet's. A lot of C++ books I
bought were terrible (a book by a Greek surnamed author comes to mind,
and a book by Barbara Moos, a programming pioneer and guru, was bad).
Too many "Hello World" books or too many "old style" books (Charles
Prezold's stuff comes to mind).
Another book for later (very optional): is the Design Patterns book by
Judith Bishop, which is the Gang of Four's famous book done for C#.
Very optional, since realistically even in OOP you'll do these kind of
designs once in a blue moon, but when you do them right they are very
powerful.
Good luck...and I learned something new today from Wikipedia: Clarion
(programming).
RL
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